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I play a lot of games but Ive never heard of this game before this post
"Nobody bought our game we didn't market. Guess we'll stop making an entire genre of games."
I mean, it's my favorite genre, so if EA can stay the fuck away from it, that's not a bad outcome
Had you heard of it?
I've literally never heard of it, but not my genre.
I think they mean single player shooter is their favorite genre, and would be happy for EA to stay away from them. Not the ‘game nobody heard of’
I’m not the person you replied to but I’ve been a first person shooter fan since Wolfenstein 3D and original doom. I had NEVER heard of it til today. First person and tower defense games are basically all I play.
They claim to have spent 40 million usd marketing it, I saw some people on twitch playing it when it first came out but it looked meh and was priced way too high so I didn’t watch much
There are many genres EA needs to stop making, but I doubt they'll take the right lesson from this
From the article:
They must have done extremely bad marketing even though they spent so much on marketing because I've never heard of this game
They did market it. A lot.
It's just that the game's trailers were wildly forgettable.
I mean im on my ps5 every day, browse a ton of game related content on lemmy and such, and share a lot of game news with my friend group, and Ive literally never heard of or seen marketing for this game.
Same. This seems to be getting more common with various media and products. Too many choices which is a good thing for consumers but not good for publishers.